[Backdated 8/25 - mini-GP open to team demilich or by request] is anyone dead?

[st_ratagem]

Coming back to consciousness hurt, significantly more than Loki remembered hurting in recent memory. There didn't seem to be a single part of his body that wasn't in some kind of pain, and on top of that he became aware, very quickly, of an odd whistling emptiness that said too much magic. He couldn't even have called one of his knives.

All of that being the case, he didn't move. If the fight was still going on, he intended to stay down. For a little while. Until he had something to act with or on. Or until he legitimately passed out again; that seemed horribly likely, with the way his head was swimming and the warm-wet of blood flowing out instead of staying in.

The desert was essentially silent, though, for the definition of 'silence' that included the sounds of wind and ordinary movement. Footsteps. Voices.

He wasn't dead, then. Was anyone else?

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Re: Carlos - open

[st_illavirgin]

"They're useful," Carlos agreed. "Normally I use them to absorb attacks, reduce the energy in them, it's much harder to make them solid like that. And hey, I definitely protect anyone who stands against an enemy."

He smiled slightly. "Well, hopefully it won't be needed, but thank you." He could make fun of it, but he could tell that Thor utterly meant it, so treated it with the reverence in which it was intended.